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Engineering - chemical / biological

From waste to health: Valorization of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) by-products as a source of marine collagen

The global market of marine collagen-added products is tremendously growing, leading to the need for a stable and enormous supply of marine collagen. Atlantic salmon scales and skin are abundant in collagen, however no research has been performed for its extraction. The proposed project will develop an efficient extraction process to maximize the collagen yield, and purify the extracted collagen for its use as the functional ingredient in nutritional supplements and cosmetic products. This research will create a large and lasting supply of marine collagen to the market, so companies that produce and sell marine collagen-added products can have stable and low-cost production of high-value products with competitive price. Furthermore, this project will promote valorization of the large amounts of Atlantic salmon by-products for value addition.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Deepika Dave

Student:

Yi Liu

Partner:

Springboard Atlantic

Discipline:

Food science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Accelerate

Bioinspired Unconventional Decontamination (BUD®)

Canada is the third largest exporter and the fourth largest producer of oil in the world. Thus, oil is a very important part of the Canadian economy. Oil is a cleaner fuel than coal, but it still has many disadvantages. For example, oil spills that occurs during transport and drilling can cause great environmental damage. Oil spills into oceans are harmful to marine mammals and birds as well as shellfish and fish. Methods for oil spill cleanup usually remove the oil layer from the surface of the water or break it up to make the oil spill less visible by pushing the effects of the spill underwater. Our response technology targets suspended or sunken oil before deep-sea currents drive the plume of oil far from the oil spill origin. Actually, our response technology is a problem-solving toolbox containing innovative devices/processes (e.g., enzyme mixture, jellyfish like tool) for oil spill cleanup. In this problem-solving toolbox, biological catalysts (enzymes) produced by oil-eating bacteria are used to detoxify toxic components catched by jellyfish tentacles.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Satinder Kaur Brar

Student:

Seyyed Mohammadreza Davoodi

Partner:

Springboard Atlantic

Discipline:

Engineering - civil

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

York University

Program:

Accelerate

Automated real-time inspection for robotic arc welding operations

Welding has widespread use in manufacturing, and its quality often determines the overall performance of the manufactured part. Nevertheless, due to the complex nature of the process, weld quality inspection remains manual with the standard approach of QA for defects after production completes. This introduces significant costs of downtime and reworks associated with finding defects at the late stages of production. This project leverages advanced data analytics and machine learning to develop and validate an automated real-time quality inspection system for industrial welding operations. Manufacturers greatly benefit from real-time insight about the welding operations enabling them to avoid defects early during production.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Daan Maijer

Student:

Seyyed Mohammad Mike Mohseni

Partner:

AutoMetrics

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Other

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Development and simulation of the GreeNovel invented plastic recycling and gas cleaning process

The main objective of this project is to design a novel plastic recycling technology invented by GreeNovel Incorporation. The process is based on microwave pyrolysis of the wastes at high temperatures and in the absence of oxygen to be decomposed to pyrolysis-oil and gas. The modelling of the novel microwave pyrolysis system and the product processing section will be performed. The process simulation tool will be provided to determine the properties of the products and operating conditions of each section. Moreover, the energy consumption and specifications of the microwave heating system from the flow data and other operating conditions will be defined. By incorporating the experimental data provided by GreeNovel, the equations describing the phenomena, including movement, mass and energy transfer equations, and Maxwell’s equations, will be solved using the simulation model.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Yaser Khojasteh

Student:

Mahnaz Soltani Hosseini

Partner:

GreeNovel Inc

Discipline:

Engineering - chemical / biological

Sector:

Other

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Accelerate

Further development of protein-based biosensors and assessment of their commercialization potential within the Canadian aquaculture industry

In the agri-food industry, monitoring the production and/or processing of raw materials can be important for ensuring the quality of the end-product. Measurement of specific compounds during processing can provide the feedback required to make informed adjustments resulting in a quality enhancement of the product. Biosensors are the devices that can provide detection and/or quantification of specific chemical compounds in a sample. For biosensors to be integrated into existing processing they need to provide accurate results in little time, be cheap, and simple to operate. Protein-biosensors are a type of biosensor that meet these requirements by providing high sensitivity and selectivity of target compounds, real-time measurement of target molecules, and are biodegradable. We have developed a computational pipeline that allows for expediated production of new custom biosensors. The overall aim of this project is to determine the commercialization potential and feasibility of protein-biosensors in the aquaculture industry.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Hans-Joachim Wieden

Student:

Harland Brandon

Partner:

Springboard Atlantic

Discipline:

Biochemistry / Molecular biology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Lethbridge

Program:

Accelerate

Role and regulation of ovarian stem cells during follicular development and dysregulation in PCOS

The polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), a multi-factorial heterogeneous syndrome with complex pathologies, affects up to 10% of women of reproductive age and accounts for 75% of anovulatory infertility. The annual costs of PCOS and associated infertility in Canada are staggering and are estimated to be $450M. Tissue-residing stem cells play important roles in the regulation of various physiological and pathological processes, through self-renewal, differentiation and cell-cell communication to maintain tissue homoeostasis and mediate repair and regeneration. The proposed research is to determine if and how ovarian stem cells are involved in the regulation of follicular growth and how these cellular mechanisms are altered in PCOS.
The proposed studies will show, for the first time, if and how ovarian stem cells mediate androgen actions by targeting granulosa cells through exosomes release. Moreover, we will determine if VSEL stem cells differentiate into granulosa/theca cells during normal follicle development and in PCOS. Our findings will improve current understanding of the pathogenesis of PCOS, thus laying the foundation for development of novel therapeutics geared towards disease management, prevention and effective treatment.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Benjamin Tsang

Student:

Fereshteh Esfandiarinezhad

Partner:

OriginElle

Discipline:

Other

Sector:

Other

University:

University of Ottawa

Program:

Sensor development for in-situ microplastics monitoring in water bodies

Plastics are all around us, and unfortunately, they either do not go through decomposition or take decades to decompose. Consequently, tiny plastic particles, called microplastics, are found in oceans, rivers, and even in drinking water. Living species in the oceans consume them, and these microplastics enter to our food chain and pose significant health concerns as they can be toxic to humans and animals. Currently, the detection of microplastics takes too much time and effort, and it requires laboratory equipment. In this project, we propose developing a sensor to detect microplastics in water bodies in real-time. The sensor will attach to autonomous robots to identify their size and concentration in oceans. Using GPS, we are going to map their locations. Developing and using the proposed sensor is the first step understanding their concentration and toxicity levels in oceans. 7.3. Participant

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Faculty Supervisor:

Cagri Ayranci

Student:

Eyup Can Demir

Partner:

Springboard Atlantic

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Gait and Balance Parameters Inferred with the PROTXX Head Accelerometer (Phase 2)

The vestibular organs detect head movement and are involved in the coordination of standing balance. With balance problems being a common and expensive healthcare cost internationally, there is a growing need for new diagnostic and therapeutic medical devices that target vestibular balance function. In particular, a wearable device that could be used outside the clinic could provide a convenient, low-cost alternative. Here we explore the feasibility of integrating Electrical Vestibular Stimulation (EVS) – a relatively new technique for probing vestibular- specific balance function – with the commercially available head motion sensor from PROTXX. The wearable technology we are co-developing will enable frequent, accurate, and mobile assessments of vestibular function, as well as provide a novel therapeutic approach for enhancing balance control in patients at risk of falling (analogous to a vestibular prosthetic).

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ryan Peters

Student:

Christopher James Banman

Partner:

PROTXX

Discipline:

Kinesiology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

Artificial Intelligence to Support Autonomous Seabed Mapping Operations

Presently the Ocean Mapping Community is spending a lot of time manually cleaning the raw sonar survey files. If this cleaning process is done by an Artificial Intelligence system as clean as a human would do, this could be transforming the entire Ocean Mapping community. Therefore, we propose a novel solution of using an Artificial Intelligence Algorithm – Reinforcement Learning to clean the sonar survey files. The proposed algorithm was used by Google’s DeepMind to beat GO Grandmasters. We believe that by tapping this algorithm we would be able to clean the raw sonar survey files as efficient as the manual cleaning of the raw sonar survey files.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ian Church

Student:

Vishwa Barathy Gandhi Kalidasan

Partner:

Springboard Atlantic

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of New Brunswick

Program:

Accelerate

Sustainable functionalized magnetic particles for efficient treatment of marine oil pollution

Oily wastewater production and discharge from different sources such as industries and daily human activities are the main sources of marine oil pollution. More importantly, accidental oil spills occurred in oil extraction/production, refining, and transportation stages can cause detrimental impacts on the aquatic ecosystems and marine environments. In this Lab2Market project, we apply a special coating solution provide a proper dispersibility aqueous/continuous in various environments to optimize the adsorption performance by considering all affective physiochemical variables to be improved for on-site purposes.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sohrab Zendehboudi

Student:

Hamideh Hamedi

Partner:

Springboard Atlantic

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Accelerate

Design and optimization of low-frequency piezoelectric energy harvesters

Portable electronic applications are typically powered by batteries, which have limited lifespan and size constraints. Energy harvesting from the spatial environment is a promising solution to sustainable power supplies for low-power portable devices and sensor networks. Vibration-based energy harvesting has received much attention due to the recent advances in microfabrication of piezoceramic materials. These smart materials can convert mechanical parasitic vibrations to electric charge through the direct piezoelectric effect. The resulting energy can be extracted after using an interface circuit. We propose a novel wideband piezoelectric energy harvester that can be used as a long-term reliable electrical power supply for small electronic devices based on the low-frequency nature of environmental vibrations (e.g., wind, ocean waves). Therefore, the proposed energy harvester in this research has a lot of potential to be commercialized and deployed in inaccessible regions, like offshore and deep marine environments.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Lihong Zhang;Mohammad Al Janaideh

Student:

Hamidreza Ehsani Chimeh

Partner:

Springboard Atlantic

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Accelerate

Development of an effective process with aid of micro-organisms and fungus for reduction of environmentally destructive effect of spill oil toward ocean ecosystem protection.

The risk of an oil spill in the marine environment always exists during offshore oil production and transportation. The oil spill can affect the marine ecosystem, including seabirds, aquatic organisms and even humans health, both directly and indirectly. The best solution to the oil spill incident is collecting the spilled oil, extracting that from the marine environment and potentially taking it back to the energy cycle. However, depending on the situation and severity of the oil spill incident, it can be partially possible or even impossible. The hydrocarbon degradation using microorganisms is a crucial step toward sustainable spill oil treatment and minimizing the spill oil footprint. This study aims to screen and select effective indigenous microorganisms such as bacteria and fungus that can decompose all types of hydrocarbon substances in crude oil.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sohrab Zendehboudi

Student:

Ali Ghamartale

Partner:

Springboard Atlantic

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Accelerate

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